Friday, January 17, 1947
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Page Fourteen
Traviata to Open
6th Opera Festival
APHINROTHSCHILD ,
SOS
All day Sunday, Jan. 19, 18 Jew-
ish Boy Scout troops will go ring-
ing doorbells for canned goods or
clothing for the SOS drive. Wel-
come them with your contribu-
tion . . . Elaine Prussian is chair-
man.
• • •
'BOUT PEOPLE YOU KNOW
When the fine engine siren
rings . . . it's a good idea to stop
in one's tracks. That's what our
down river chappie, Bernie Moroi
did. However, the sirens kept on
with their maddening yowl be-
cause Bernie had parked his car
right in front of the burning
house!
Congrats to ex-Navy Dr. Al Le-
zell who opens his new dental of-
fice on Seven Mile and Gratiot
"At last, we're back into civiliza-
tion," sigh former East Side gals
Bea and Fran Guz as they move
into their new west side habitat.
Louis Jordan's version of Jack
Fine's "Texas and Pacific" will hit
the record dealers on Jan. 27 with
a Decca label ... Barrister Monte
Korn gives us a cheery smile from
the good side of his fractured jaw
after a nasty mixup with another
auto.
• • •
CONGRATS DEPT.
Stork news .. . The Sol Adlers
have named their new 7 lb. 8 oz
offspring, Allan Thomas ... Birth-
day felicitations to Elaine Rob-
bins ...and the George Agrees are
off to New York to celebrate their
fifth year of happy married life.
• • •
WE SPOTTED a handsome cu-
tie in the paper the other day
advertising a solid gold lipstick
case with a built-in sable brush to
retail for $300 ...and the copy
adds that this will be followed by
a popular priced model next year..
We can wait.
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an art teacher, assisted in the
sculpturing and carving exhibits
while his wife Harriet did the
puppet show.
Sid Solomon, William Terricoff,
Dr. Edwin Marks, Bert Abrams,
Jack Weinberg, Norman Appleton,
Gus Feig and George Canvasser
were welcomed into the fold of
the Robert Rafelson JWV at the
impressive installation topped off
with goodies served by the active
auxiliary.
• • •
LITTLE BLACK BOOK NOTES
At the Chop House . . . Marilyn
Katz looking interested In clothing
man Harry Soloman. Dark Inez
Mendellohn lets us in on her new
love, Irwin Cain from New York...
Jay Goggan and Hope Collins
dancing cheek to cheek . . . Toby
Langer with that free and easy
smile dating Hershel Levin and
Joe Mohr's date was Maxine Sny-
der.
You can always get a table to
cat at the lovely Bel-Aire Supper
Club . . . Taking advantage of
midnight snacks were Pi Tau Sig-
ma's Jerry Glefix with Roz Korens,
Jerry Lambert and Ruth Atlas,
Lenny Burger and Fran Tenen-
baum. Having a party of their
own were Jerry Glasman and Rita
Schwartz, Peter Globerson and
Faye Lipovitch, Irving Lipovitch
and Maxine Gold, Flo fisskind and
Izzy Gendeloff, Manny Kaufman
and Marilyn Gurvitz.
• • •
OUT ON DATES ... Dick Kahn
and Glenn Alpern, barrister Sol
Schwartz and Elaine Berman, Mary
Canvasser and Lorraine Siskin,
Leonard Molitz and Sally Gordon,
Harry Lipshitz with Shirley Oram,
Art Lipman and Betty Lewis, Bill
Rosen with Windsor's Edith Good-
man, Nate Pollack and Blanche
Berman, Izzy Selik with Ilene Sha-
kit, Marty Sorkowitz and Betty
Freedman, Arnold Manko with
Ellie Zager and Larry Schonborn
with Florence Simon.
• • •
ON THE BOOKS . . .
Bobby Grayson's ork will en-
tertain for the Center's Holiday
Hop Jan. 19 . . • For something
different . .. go across the river
to Windsor for the Junior Hadas-
sah, Fun Frolic at the Shear Ha-
shomayim on Satdee eve. Jan. 18
We're anticipating the Career
Girl's next affair for the bois and
gas . . . a cabaret style shindig
with host and hostess to make
you feel at home . . . It's on the
23rd at the Center.
Some Wayne lovely will reign
as the Hillel Queen for their
dance Feb. 1 with Ziggy Elman
and his ork doing the music in a
style you'll go for.
THEY'RE GOING STEADY
NOW ... Ruth Bleifeid and Har-
ry Balk, Eve Epstein and Jack
Caminker, Kate Politer and Alex
Weinberg.
• • •
Three of Detroit's favorite operas
will be brought to the Masonic
Temple Auditorium Jan. 27, Jan.
29 and Jan. 30 by the Michigan
Opera Company for its sixth an-
nual opera festival.
It will open with La Traviata,
starring Hilde Reggiani, Metropo-
litan Opera soprano, as Leonora,
supported by Bruno Landi, Metro-
politan Opera tenor, as Alfredo,
and George Czaplicki, baritone, as
Germont.
Nor Ina Greco, Metropolitan
Opera soprano, takes the role of
Leonora in Il Trovatore with Maru
Castagna as Azucena; Angelo Pill.
tto as Count Di Luna; Jesus De
Gaviria, Madrid Opera House ten-
or, as Manrico; and Frederick
White, basso, as Ferrando.
Madame Butterfly has returned
to the American stage again since
V-J Day and the part of Butterfly
is taken by Era Tognoli, Cincin-
nati Summer Opera soprano. The
role of Lt. Pinkerton is taken by
the Met tenor, Frederick Jagel.
The chorus is composed of 60
selected voices with a ballet of 25
and a 40-piece symphony orches-
tra under the baton of the Met's
director, Paul Briesach.
Returns for Honor Roll
OBSERVATIONS
Pretty Lynn Trager carrying a
book full of art layouts to an
ad agency to see if she can cinch
the job . The Leo Bergs almost
*stole the show at the recent Wayne
U. Art Education Exhibit ... Leo,
Max Kritt Takes Up
NeW Business in L.A.
Max Kritt, who for the past 23
years had been in the retail drug
business in Detroit, has sold his
store at 7747 Puritan avenue and
is now in the investment and fin.
ance business in Los Angeles.
He lived at 18043 Wisconsin
avenue.
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By HENRY WEGODSKY
HE HEBREW INSTITUTE of
New York this week presented
Kate Smith with its 1946 scroll of
merit for fostering brotherhood. I
have long admired Miss Smith as
an entertainer, but precisely what
she did to prove herself worthy of
the coveted award, I do not know.
• • •
NEW YORK SHOW PEOPLE
are flooding Belle Baker with
get-well cards. She suffered a
leg injury recently while appear-
ing at the Bowery, Detroit.
• • •
MILTON BERLE set an all-
time high when he closed at the
Carnival, New York City, Dec. 31,
with a $400,000 take on a 44-week
run.
• • •
THAT THE ROAD TOUR of
"A Flag Is Born" is a success
now is clear. The drama grossed
$9,500 in its first four days at
the Studebaker Theater, Chicago.
• •
AT LONG LAST, Zero Mostel is
back on Broadway with a princi-
pal comedy role in "Beggar's Holi-
day."
• • •
MYIION COHEN, dialectician
extraordinaire, will leave New
York shortly for a February en-
gagement at Kitty Davis', Miami
Beach.
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Juniors 'Bone Up'
for Quiz Program
Members of the Junior Service
Group are "boning up" on com-
munal activities in preparation
fdr the Truth and Consequences
program of the JSG, at 2:30 p.m.
Sunday in the Jewish Community
Center. The Detroit News column-
ist, Tony Weitzel, will act as in-
terrogator.
All members of the Junior Ser-
vice Group are invited to attend.
Any young Jewish adult from 16
to 30 is eligible to join the Group,
by signing up at the door. Dues
are $1 a year.
Fireside Lounge
LUNCHES • DINNERS
featnring
JACK NELSON
at the Hammond Organ
CALL PAUL PEPPER
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MISS MURIEL WOLFSON will.
return to Detroit Monday even-
ing, Jan. 27, to present "My
Vineyard," a five-act dramalogue
on the life of Henrietta Szold,
at the Business and Professional
Division of Iladassah's Honor
Roll in Temple Beth El. Tickets
may be purchased from mem-
bers or from Dorothea Rich-
mond, UN. 2-1068, or Sophie
Blanche Schwartz, TY. 5-6119.
They will also be sold at the
door.
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—and—
—THE—
ODD SCRAPS .. •
Our three musketeers, Earl Hor-
des, Freddie Birndorf, and Sam
Babcock have left for the land of
warm beach sands . . . Hal Eisen-
berg and Robert Goldstaff have
joined in a new enterprise, the
Ace Bookkeeping Service on Lin-
wood.
Mary Brown's house was the
site of the Sigma Alpha Beta
Try Our Famous
Alumnae tea . . . Bye bye to sis- Delicious Delicacies
ters Reva and Marian Gold who • Beef a la Strognoff
take up residence in Sunny Calif... • Blinchiki
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Becher, Walter Herbach and Mar-
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The B & P gals of the Pisgah
aS SI"
Lodge celebrated their second year
of existence with a gathering at
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Adelle Feldman's house.
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W. LOAYETIE
The Bnai Brith Youths will wel-
OPPOSITE CASS THEATRE
come their national director, Rab-
bi Amram Prero with a rally Jan.
21 at the Center . .. A dancing
party will follow.
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New York
THE VOCALIST with Dui Ar-
nez' orchestra is a 21-year-old
Jewish lass—Jane Harvey. Her
correct name is Phyllis Taff, and
she hails from Jgrsey City, N.J.
• • •
RUMOR IIAS IT that several
show business moguls are Inter-
ested in reviving the "Potash
and Perlmutter" series.
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WQXR — "THE RADIO STA-
TION of the New York Times"—
will continue broadcasting Temple
Emanuel's Sabbath services. Pres-
sure from influential Jewish groups
would, I am sure, c6mpel stations
in Detroit, Boston, Baltimore, Los
Angeles, Philadelphia, St. Louis,
and other cities with a heavy Jew-
ish population, to render the same
courtesy to local synagogues. And
this should be so. For this Is an
effective means of enhancing re-
spect for the Jewish religion.
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